Biography:
(1894–1961), national secretary, National Maritime Union, who presented discrimination complaints to FEPC against Standard Brands. His integrated union, considered relatively radical and having Communist members, support, strongly opposed segregation and discrimination in shipping industry. Member, National CIO Committee to Abolish Racial Discrimination. Deported as subversive alien to his native Kingston, Jamaica (1948).
Birth:
1894
Death:
1961
Gender:
Male